Safety Now For All

The Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center is hosting a 1.5h training for community awareness and food distribution workers, volunteers and coordinators on the basic information and safety precautions we need to do in the community to be safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. Learn about how to contain the spread of this disease, how you can maintain safer environments and how we can keep each other safer while we make sure that we can provide for the needs in our community while keeping our workers and volunteers safe.

This schedule is subject to change depending on demand – check back on our website for updates or email worksafe@cworkers.org with questions or to request a training on a different date and time. Spanish and French language training are also in development!

Thanks for doing your part to keep our communities safe!

In Solidarity,

Your CIWC Team

Safety No For All / Seguridad Para Tod@s Ahora Program

Members holding their OSHA 10 Cards earned at the CIWC – one from 2009 the other from 2019CIWC’s first OSHA 10 class with a majority of women students!Our largest OSHA 10 class ever

Safety Now For All is building workers power to increase workplace safety through collective action. CIWC’s goal is reducing workplace injuries in at-risk Industries and among at-risk communities, like non-English speakers and temporary workers, through standards enforcement, education and advocacy.

In 2019 the CIWC was invited to join the Midwest Consortium of Hazardous Waste Worker Trainers. Headed by the University of Cincinnati, the Midwest Consortium for Hazardous Waste Worker Training (MWC) serves the needs of workers and communities potentially exposed to hazardous materials in nine states: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. This experienced, dedicated group has successfully developed and implemented awareness and preparedness programs for workers at hazardous waste sites and at treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDF); for emergency responders; and for the under-served. CIWC is the only multi-lingual trainer in the Consortium. Through the Consortium CIWC is expanding its own training options in Cincinnati and helping other members of the Consortium reach and train non-English speakers throughout the Midwest.

As part of the National Institute for Environment Health Science worker training program, we have an amazing team of local trainers to respond to this current crisis to help people work more safely in this environment.

The Director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, recommends (link below) that people involved in essential services, including volunteers, seek out local NIEHS trainers.

The situation is changing rapidly and the lack of safety training for expanded food distribution is a special concern. We can help! We are already coordinating with the public schools, the Peaslee Neighborhood Center, and the Freestore Foodbank to do our part to supplement existing safety and health training with our own, NIEHS funded work.

We know this is hard – it is difficult to care for people from
six-feet away. But Coronavirus doesn’t care that you are feeding hungry people.
Good intentions are no protection. Many workers lack the proper safety
training.

We will save lives by flattening the curve and slowing down the spread of Covid-19. This is how we will save lives. As a community partner, CIWC is a multilingual resource for community groups, employers, or workers needing help to work safely. We are striving to quickly share information and train community members on how to be work safer. Organizations, employers, and individual workers can contact our “Work Safe” hotline at 513-621-5991 for questions and to request training, or reach out to me via email at ciwc.communications@gmail.com. Be safe everyone.